I have noticed almost the same behaviour. When I change from a VC back to X and right after that use the accelerator keys (Alt-Left, Alt-Right) to change between virtual desktops I usually get thrown back to a VC. Though not always the same VC I changed to X from. I have this gut feeling that it still tries to change VCs even though it should be running under X, but I'm only guessing here.
As far as I remember X has never chrashed. I also won't get thrown back to VC if I _move_ the mouse. After I move the mouse the accelerator keys work just fine. I use Matrox Mill. 4MB with 24bit 1280x1024 and SVGA server version 3.2A. The exactly same things happened with the 3.2 server too. My mouse is a cheap 3-button logitech model in ttyS0 (COM1) and I use gpm. Brian K Servis wrote: > Occasionally when I switch from a VC back to X(alt-f7) and try and use > the mouse immediately X crashes and exits. If I don't use the mouse > for a couple of seconds it does not crash. I am running xdm but have > had it happen when just starting X using xinit. I am running gpm on > the VC's. The error message when it crashes is: > > "Fatal server error: > Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy) I'm sorry I have no explanation or solution but I think we have something in common going on. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
